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Google Now A Verb In The Oxford English Dictionary
Gary Price reports that “Google” is now officially a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary. Google already is a verb in some other dictionaries, but the Oxford English…
MSN Search Requires Unique Robots.txt Files In HTTPS Vs. HTTP Cases
A quick note from the MSN Search Blog on secure content that https and http are considered separate “from a robots.txt perspective…
Another Microsoft Executive Leaves To Join Google
Business 2.0 in Microsoft exec jumps to Google reports that another Microsoft executive has left the company this month. A 15 year…
Not GBuy: Google Launches Checkout
The wait is over for Google’s long-awaited payment service that’s been the subject of so much speculation. Google Checkout is a new…
Google Launches Checkout, not the Rumored GBuy
Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that's tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn't the rumored PayPal…
Search Headlines & Links: June 28, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Google Book Search Wins Victory In German Challenge
I wrote earlier this month of a French lawsuit becoming the third one I knew about filed against Google over its book…
Data Feed Submission To Google Base
I spent 3.5 hours Saturday night creating and lightly optimizing a completely new data feed (or bulk upload) to get PersonalProtectionStore’s home…
Daily SearchCast, June 28, 2006: Digg Goes Beyond Tech; Google Earth & Real-Time Tracking; funny Yahoo-related videos; Google Water & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Digg’s relaunch taking it beyond technology news, FeedBurner’s ad plans; Google’s challenge in enterprise search; Google Earth and…
KinderStart.com To Be Heard In Court Friday On Google Penalizing Site
Webuser reports that the KinderStart.com lawsuit against Google for penalizing their site will be heard in court this Friday. It is not…
Google Loses French Lawsuit Over Vuitton Trademark
I just got word that Google lost the French lawsuit we reported on Monday involving the Louis Vuitton trademark. I do not…
Google Book Search Scans Books By Hand?
Philipp Lenssen reports on how Google actually scans in books for the Google Book Search service. Yes, it seems like Google does…
Google and Yahoo Come to the Aid of Craigslist
As many people already know, Craigslist is being sued under federal housing discrimination law for allowing the posting of allegedly discriminatory ads…
Google Not The Leader In Enterprise Search
Google is synonymous with “search,” everyone knows that, some people hate it and some people love it. An Investors Business Daily article…
Some Funny & Crazy Yahoo Videos On YouTube
Loren Baker posted some of the funniest and craziest videos he found on YouTube related to Yahoo. If you have time to…
Marine Selling “Google Water” For Military Families Charity
Boing Boing links to a US Marine who just got back from Iraq. The marine posted on his blog that he began…
Dell To Use Google Earth To Provide Enhanced Tech Support
The Detroit News reports that Dell is going to use Google Earth as a tool to enhanced their technical support services. The…
David Beach Leaves Yahoo For Start Up Wink
Brian Smith notes that the senior product manager of Yahoo Shopping Search, David Beach, has decided to leave Yahoo after five years.…
Social News Site Digg Adds New Categories, Features
Sites that rely on user generated content are all the rage these days, from online encyclopedia Wikipedia to social bookmark sites like…
Digging into the News
Social news site Digg has expanded from technology news into broad-based coverage of many popular topics, with stories ranked according to their…
New Search Patent Applications: June 27, 2006 – Searching Amongst Malicious Web Sites
Microsoft’s patent applications from the end of last week include ways for search engines to scan malicious web sites, clustering queries for…
Search Headlines & Links: June 27, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Daily SearchCast, June 27, 2006: School Upset Over Student Data In Google; Is GBuy GooglePal?; Microsoft adCenter Gets Promoted; New Travel Search Engines; The Matt Cutts Doll & More!
Today’s search podcast covers a school district’s student social security numbers getting into Google; Amazon.com going missing on Google; Google’s PayPal-like system…
Microsoft Demographics Prediction Tool Interactive Review
We posted about Microsoft Center Labs once again, but this time I wanted to show you, my eight-minute review of the demographics…
Image Database To Fight Online Child Porn
The AP reports that AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink, NetZero and Juno are teaming up to fight child pornography. They are pooling together…
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